The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, written and illustrated by John Hendrix published in 2018 by Amulet Books 167 pages + back matter I’ve read several biographies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor whose faith-shaped …
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heartstopping, heartbreaking, heartwarming…this novel is all three
Refugee, by Alan Gratz published in 2017 by Scholastic Press I finally made it through the l-o-n-g waiting list at my library and had the chance to read this astonishing novel. And I am here to tell you — I …
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an unlikely group of WWII heroes
The Boys who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, by Phillip M. Hoose published in 2015 by Farrar Straus Giroux I finally read this riveting non-fiction book about a group of WWII-era Danish schoolboys who intrepidly wreaked havoc …
voracious young readers…this novel’s for you!
When I was a child, my Swede-Finn grandfather carved an exasperatingly difficult wooden puzzle. When it is all put together, it looks like this: Separately, the pieces look somewhat like this: I could never put it together, but my older …
